Crochet Challenge!! Day 26: Amigurumi

The definition of amigurumi: (crocheted or knitted stuffed toy) is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals and anthropomorphic creatures.

 The word is derived from a combination of the Japanese words ami, meaning crocheted or knitted, and nuigurumi, meaning stuffed doll. 

Amigurumi's are my favorite thing to make and I've made quite a few of them. Here are some of the amigurumi's that I have made over the years. There are others that I have just not had a chance to photograph.

 

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Crochet Snail at Work

I made a sample amigurumi for work a year ago and today I randomly decided to finally take pictures. If you live near the Ac Moore in Voorhees you can go take a look at the cute little guy. He's just a little guy that I randomly picked out of one of the amigurumi books that AC Moore sells. 

Hamburger Amigurumi

               Finished this little guy at 3 this morning :) he's so cute. I didn't have a pattern, I just thought it up as I went along

Dad's Rubber Ducky

             My Dad loves rubber ducks. He has a huge collection. He has over a thousand ducks and he has a whole website dedicated to it. http://www.rubberduckpond.com/ Not all of his ducks are on his website, but a large portion are. My sister Magan, who is at art school and took a glass blowing class, made him a giant glass rubber duck. I've been planning to make him a duck for a while and was suppose to make him one for Christmas. He found the pattern online by himself after I had already started it, so I took that as a sign that I should finish it =) Below is the finished product and the result of a random rubber duck photo shoot I did while I waited for my friend to be ready to go to lunch =) I used the free pattern on the pixie kitten website http://www.pixiekitten.com/

                   

               Rubber Ducky on a throne of Duck Tape. Seems appropriate. 

                       
                      Looking out at the sun shine. Enjoying the beautiful day.


                       
                     GIANT RUBBER DUCKY!!!! jk not really =)


                       
                                                    Duck Butt

                       
                                             Just a Rubber Ducky
                     
                                         
                       
                          He's looking at the camera. Not camera shy at all


                       
                             Whatever is outside has him very excited.

                       
                                          Enjoying a little bath time.

                       
                          Looking out the window. Waiting to meet my dad.

                       
                                     Duck Butt. Looking out the window.

                       
                                  Sun Bathing. Can't forget those cheeks.

                       
                 Ducky with his good friend Swampy from "Where's my water"

                       
                                             Ducky and Swampy

                       
                                               Bath Time Again

                       
                                                Sunny Windowsill

                       
                                      Ducky in a Mosh Pit. Rock on!

                       
                                He see's you and seems a little surprised

                       
                                          Wow Bath time again! =)

                       
                                                 Self explanatory

                       
                                        Just sitting on my laptop

                       
                                                       Boo!!

                       
                                                     Just chillin

                       
                                                       Bubbles!!

                       
                                                    One Bubble

                       
                                                So Many Bubbles

                       
                                               So Happy Ducky!

                       
                                                      Friends!

                       

  OH!

Rubber Ducky

Your the one

You make bath time

Lots of fun!

Rubber Ducky

I'm awfully fond of you! (bobobodeo)

Rubber Ducky

Joy of joy

When i squeeze you you make noise

Rubber Ducky

You're my very best friend its true

Every Day

When I make my way to the tubby

I find a little fella who's

Cute and yella

And chubby

Rubba dub dubby!

Rubber Ducky

Your so fine

And im lucky that your mine

Rubber ducky im awfully fond of you

Finished Ninja

Hey =) So you know how I said the ninja turtle was gonna be a "craft along"? and I would update my progress about every other day? Well that didn't quite work out as planned. I went a little nuts and finished it in 12 hours. Half of those 12 hours were spent away from my work in the cafeteria. I guess it took me about 5-6 hrs while watching movies. I started out taking step by step pictures, like the ones below, but then my camera battery started to die.

By the time it had charged enough to take more pictures, he was completely done. One of the things I like is that even though I know his bandanna shouldn't be tied on the side and I didn't do so on purpose I think I like it better that way. If memory serves the red one had a lot of attitude in the show too, so it displays his roughness.

 The color in the pictures above and below have and odd color to them

 The bandanna is more of the color it looks in these pictures